Tickets

From time to time we ask the Horowhenua District Council to sort out a problem. This page is a list of such tickets. If you report an issue please let us know so we can track it here.

Note: what I’ve discovered is that you have to keep following up on requests or they are likely to be ignored or abandoned.

Tips: approx 500 metres north of the Waiorongomai Stream is a boundary marker showing where Kāpiti stops and Horowhenua begins. If there’s a problem south of that marker contact Kāpiti Council, kapiti.council@kapiticoast.govt.nz , phone 04 296 4831. For anything north of that boundary contact Horowhenua District Council: CustomerServices@horowhenua.govt.nz , phone: 06 366 0999. Remember to keep the reference number they give you so you can follow up.

Reported 06 October 2017, Ref number 112844/2017: remove dead sheep from beach by south track off Reay Mackay Grove. Asked for update 27 October 2017 and provided a marked up map showing its location. 30 October 2017, Council response: I have just has word from our contractors that they have located the dead sheep & are disposing of it now. A check on 01 November 2017 shows it’s still there though. The sheep was completely buried under a mound of sand and driftwood on approx 08 November 2017.
Status: resolved.
Request No 108690/2017, initiated 24 May 2017, asking for dog poop bag dispensers for Reay Mackay Grove. A dispenser was ‘promised’ 11 August 2017 by Craig Kidd, Parks & Property Officer • Āpiha Papa Rēhia, Rawa:

I have been waiting on our Engineers to get back to us. A follow up call is they are having trouble getting mechanisms for the latch.

I have asked them to proceed with making 2 of the basic holders made out of stainless steel and will work on the latches even if we have to get them made up.

A Powder Coated dispenser would not last long in our coastal conditions.

I am cautious that we charge ahead and spend $1800.00 plus installation for fitting to the existing refuse bins

What I am looking at, is a bag holder/ dispenser that can be made more cheaply.

After repeated requests for updates, Craig Kidd said on 08 September 2017:

We are looking at going with the same as the other lower north Island councils and each dispenser is $750.00 plus installation, each.

We will be getting 1 dispenser for the Southern end of Waikawa Beach .

By late October 2017 repeated requests for updates are going unanswered. Eventually I was notified and on 10 November 2017 a shiny dispenser was installed at the entrance to the south track.

Status: resolved.
12 June 2017: I asked for the Give Way road markings at the corner of Strathnaver Drive and Reay Mackay Grove to be ‘fixed’: [recent road resealing] messed up the road markings for the Give Way sign and the markings have never been properly completed. At the moment it reads only “Way” with the triangle. There are also numerous little metal tabs still in the road.
James Wallace, Roading Projects Engineer • Pūhanga Hinonga Arawaka said:

these markings are no longer standard markings under the New Zealand Manual of Traffic Signs and Markings (MOTSAM), and have been replaced by the triangle “yield” symbol. This change was made in February 2005, since then Road Controlling Authorities around the country have been allowing the words to fade. The words are eventually removed completely when the surface is resealed. The tags which are intended for roadmarkers to follow had been installed incorrectly and the roadmarkers were correct to not repaint them.

James and I communicated a few more times and in the end the tags were removed and the word ‘Way’ painted out with black paint.

Status: resolved.
27 September 2017, someone had attempted to remove the ‘No Horses’ portion of the signs at the two tracks off Reay Mackay Grove. Marjo Crueldad, Parks & Property Officer responded: We have sent out our contractor to fix the vandalised signs.
Status: resolved.
06 June 2017, Customer Request No 106058/2017: Request to Remove Gorse and Blackberry form Reserve Between 146 and 154 Strathnaver Drive. Despite several follow-ups nothing has happened, apart from the plants flowering and dropping their seeds. Eventually I stopped asking about this as it was obvious nothing was ever going to be done.
Status: not resolved.
May 2016: I asked for rubbish bins for the two beach tracks on Reay Mackay Grove. The bins were declined. Nevertheless, I persisted, and after a bit of a struggle we had two shiny new bins. Read about it at: They just binned my request.
Status: resolved.
Customer Request No 100078/2017, 03 March 2017: after a party using a marquee at the north end of Reay Mackay Grove a number of very large concrete blocks were left behind They were cluttering up the road and made it hard to turn a vehicle. On 13 March 2017 the blocks were finally removed.
Status: resolved.
Customer Request No 99373/2017, 21 February 2017: a request to trim the vegetation beside the tracks to the beach off Reay Mackay Grove. They were tidied a few days later.
Status: resolved.
Customer Request No 86772/2016, 22 July 2016: remove a dead sheep near the ‘beach is a road sign’. On 22 July 2016 Council said: I have followed this up with our Contractors, who have advised that they are expecting to have the dead sheep removed today.
Status: resolved.
12 May 2016 to Kāpiti Council: remove trailer dumped on the beach between Waikawa Beach and Otaki.
Read more about this at: A trailer on the beach: rubbish!

Status: resolved.
10 April 2016: getting a 20 litre container of corrosive material removed. Read more about this at: A Corrosive 8 twistaplot adventure on the beach.
Status: resolved.
June 2015: request to remove dead cow. I didn’t follow this up and for more than a year the cow slowly and stinkily decomposed on the beach.
Status: not resolved.